The Brazilian Minister of Social Security resigns in the scandal – MercoPress

The Brazilian Minister of Social Security resigns in the middle of the scandal

Carlos Lupi resigned from his office as a Brazilian social security minister on Friday, after meeting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Palácio do Planalto Although Lupi was not mentioned in the study, he stepped down and emphasized his commitment to transparency and justice. His Wolney Queiroz, his successor Wolney Queiroz, was selected as the successor.

“I enter this decision with the certainty that my name was never cited in the current investigation [regarding] Possible irregularities in. I would like to emphasize that all investigations have been supported from the start from all areas of social security, by me and by the Lula government's control organizations from the start. I hope that the investigation will follow their natural course, identify those responsible and strict those who used their functions to harm the workers, ”wrote Lupi.

According to Planalto, Lupis relief and Wolney's appointment are published in an additional edition of the Diário Oficial da União (official Gazette – Dou). The command of the command of the Ministry of Welfare takes place one week after the Federal Police (PF) and the office of the Union's Competence General Competence (CGU), a joint operation, which revealed a alleged program of non -authorized deductions of associative salaries into the performance.

The probe found that the irregularities to 2019 during the administration of Jair Bolsonaro are due and continued in recent years.

“I will continue to work and work together closely with the government so that all resources that have been returned from the path of our beneficiaries.

The case had already led to relieving the then InSS President Alessandro Stefanutto and the arrest of four high-ranking officials from the agency and a federal police station stationed in São Paulo.

Last Friday, the legislators of the opposition submitted an application to create a parliamentary investigation commission (CPI) to investigate the InSS fraud. Lupi came under pressure from the opposition to testify during the meeting of well -being, social assistance, childhood, youth and the family committee of the lower house on Tuesday.

The PF reported that signs of the existence of irregularities had collected in part of around 6.3 billion R (1.11 billion US dollars to the current exchange rate) that the collection of associative fees between 2019 and 2024 was moving. In the following days, the CGU and the InS themselves showed the results of audits, which have been in the expenses and problems related to the edition since 2023.

The INSS have now suspended all the deductions while examining measures to compensate the victims of what Lula promised. (Source: Agentcia Brasil)